Lahontan''s New Voyages to North-America Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lahontan''s New Voyages to North-America Vol. 1<br><br>About the middle of the seventeenth century Lahontan was erected into a barony Of which Isaac de Lom Sieur d''arce the father Of our author was the second baron. The Lahontan'' Sieur d''arce was famous as a civil engineer having the made the port Of Bayonne navigable for sea-going vessels (1630 As a recompense for this and certain military services Louis XIV granted to him and his heirs for ever (1658) a monopoly Of navigation and transportation in the harbor Of Bayonne and a pension Of three thousand livres per annum for a dozen years; in later years he was made reformer-general Of Bearn a councillor Of the parlement Of Navarre a chevalier Of St. Michel and a bourgeois Of Bayonne.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.